Barisan Nasional has the edge to win the 13th general election and wresting at least two states from the opposition, according to a study carried out by several lecturers.

Associate professor Fuad Mohd Jali from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia said the BN was leading if a study conducted on 1,400 respondents in Kedah and Selangor from March to May was anything to go by.